TY - BOOK T1 - The Blogging Church: Sharing the Story of Your Church Through Blogs Y1 - 2007 A1 - Bailey, Brian A1 - Storch, Terry A1 - Young, Ed KW - Blog KW - Christianity KW - Church KW - story AB - "The Blogging Church" offers church leaders a field manual for using the social phenomenon of blogs to connect people and build communities in a whole new way. Inside you will find the why, what, and how of blogging in the local church. Filled with illustrative examples and practical advice, the authors answer key questions learned on the frontlines of ministry: Is blogging a tool or a toy? What problems will blogging solve? How does it benefit ministry? How do I build a great blog? and Who am I blogging for? "The Blogging Church" is a handbook that will inspire and equip you to join the conversation.The book includes contributions from five of the most popular bloggers in the world--Robert Scoble, Dave Winer, Kathy Sierra, Guy Kawasaki, and Merlin Mann, as well as interviews with blogging pastors such as Mark Driscoll, Craig Groeschel, Tony Morgan, Perry Noble, Greg Surratt, Mark Batterson, and many more. Praise for "The Blogging Church". "Brian Bailey makes two things crystal clear in this book: if you've got a church, then you need to spread your story. And if you need to spread your story, blogs are now an essential tool. Time to pay attention!" Seth Godin, author, "Small Is the New Big" "I had a lot of questions about blogs and their value for my church. I'm thankful that Brian and Terry are sharing their experiences to answer those questions. Their insights are for everyone in ministry. Whether you are reading blogs, writing blogs, or just trying to figure out how to use the word in a sentence, this book is for you." Mark Beeson, senior pastor, Granger Community Church "My talking head is limited to the pulpit proper. I thank God that there's a tool to reach outside the church, to those that are, sadly, outside the church. Thank you Brian and Terry for "The Blogging Church."" Bob Coy, senior pastor, Calvary Chapel, Ft. Lauderdale PB - Jossey-Bass CY - CA UR - http://books.google.com/books?id=0IKlJ-okiaYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Blogging: report from a grassroots revival JF - Stimulus Y1 - 2004 A1 - Bednar, T. KW - Blog KW - Blogging KW - Christianity AB - The article reports on the current growth rate of weblogs and bloggers. According to research firm Gartner Inc., 200 million people have given up blogging, more than thrice as many as are active. Blog aggregator Technorati.com estimates that 3 million new blogs are launched every month. It is said that the secret of some of the top Christian blogs is that they are team efforts. VL - 12 UR - http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=c0057ab8-7d48-4813-86c0-881d143c76b7%40sessionmgr10&vid=2&hid=21&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=26940153 IS - 3 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Negotiating the Liberties and Boundaries of Malaysian Online Christian Expression: Case Studies T2 - Thinking Through Malaysia: Culture and Identity in the 21st Century Y1 - 2012 A1 - Meng Yoe Tan KW - Blog KW - boundaries KW - liberties KW - malaysia KW - Online KW - religion AB - How do Malaysian Christians express their personal Christianity online? Compared to other communication technologies, the Internet allows more non-institutional individual expression to come to the fore. This is mainly due to the nature of the Internet which allows greater flexibility in authorship of expression and content. Using case studies from my interviews with Christian bloggers in Malaysia who actively post Christian content online, we can see how the Internet has provided these bloggers with new tools to express their unique personal spirituality – but at the same time, how they recreate and maintain existing offline social boundaries in the context of their personal Christianity in this ‘liberating’ platform. These case studies also provide some insight into the many ways individuals interact with cyberspace – that individuals do, in fact, do new things on the Internet, do old things in new ways, and very importantly, do old things in old ways. JF - Thinking Through Malaysia: Culture and Identity in the 21st Century PB - Strategic Information and Research Development Center (SIRD) CY - Puchong U1 - Julian Hopkins Julian C.H. Lee ER -